When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.
Posted on 08/21/2006 11:32:44 AM PDT by Republican Red
When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.
The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity.
The bomb came through the roof of the single-storey house and half-embedded itself into the floor, just missing the TV.
There is a hole in the roof with exactly the same profile as the shell itself, like when a cartoon character runs through a wall. The tailfin - complete with skull-and-crossbones marking - still lies on the roof next to the hole where it broke off.
This is just one of thousands of nasty surprises greeting those coming back to southern Lebanon after Israel's five-week war with the Hezbollah militant group
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Cue the screaming goblins.
This is what happens when a culture that doesn't care about life meets a culture that doesn't care about truth.
Reckless endangerment and defamation, but who cares right? They're the media and are above the law and ethics.
When the truth is not good enough, just make it up.
I'm no photographer, so that's a guess. The photo simply looks odd to me.
Maybe it's just the artsy-fartsy tilt/angle of the photo (unless the floor of the house actually goes downhill, to the left).
Ping to a shocking article and post #1.
Nope. I credited LGF - It is their title and their find.
Bingo.
Just more artistic license to make it seem worse than it is.
Where is the horrible bombed out homes and buildings in Isreal? Oh wait, I forgot. Lebanon was just sitting there minding it's own business and WHAM, Isreal attacked.
LG who? What? Where's the link?
What's wrong with the original title?
What does the DNC position on abortion have to do with anything?
"just missing the TV"
Holy cow, that was close!
Exactly what sort of "bomb" is that anyway? It looks like an artillery shell with the casing still attached, and if that's the case, it was placed there, not dropped by a plane or fired by a gun.
As well they should -- especially those with incorrect headlines, leading to duplicate FR posts.
"I guess I didn't provide the LGF link for the lazy."
Why do you assume my request was due to laziness?
Given the extensive and documented history of fraud in the reporting from Lebanon, methinks you ought to take a chill pill on this one. The original title would also not have given readers an indication the the media was up to more of its Lebanese hijinks - and I'm normally a stickler for keeping the title.
RTFA. "The tailfin - complete with skull-and-crossbones marking - still lies on the roof next to the hole where it broke off."
It doesn't look large enough to weigh 1000 pounds. I do not know how to post a photo, but I did a photo search on Google and found photos of GI's standing next to 500 and 1000 pound bombs. Both look a lot larger than the device depicted in the photo.
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